The Global Rushmore of Autocrats

Posted by on Aug 16, 2020 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments Donald Trump would dearly like to add his face to Mt. Rushmore as the fifth presidential musketeer. His fireworks-and-fury extravaganza on July 3 was the next best thing. Trump’s dystopian speech was almost beside the point. Much more important was the photo op of his smirking face next to Abraham Lincoln’s. More fitting, however, would be to carve Trump’s face into a different Rushmore...
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Inside the Battle for Another World

Posted by on Dec 19, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments A succession of social upheavals over the last decade has radically realigned political power throughout the world. As a result of these tectonic shifts, what had once been on the furthest fringes of the right has now moved toward the center while the left has been pushed to the margins. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,” poet William Yeats wrote at a time of similar political churn...
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Democracy Desperately Need a Reboot

Posted by on Aug 27, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights, Russia and Eastern Europe | 0 comments If you’re a supporter of Donald Trump — or Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil or Matteo Salvini in Italy — you probably think that democracy has never been in better health. Recent elections in these countries didn’t just serve to rotate the elite from the conventional parties. Voters went to the polls and elected outsiders who promised to transform their political systems. That demonstrates that...
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The Dictator and the Nihilist

Posted by on May 29, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments Two major public figures lost their protected status last week. British authorities dragged Julian Assange, the co-founder of Wikileaks, out of the Ecuadorian consulate and into custody. Meanwhile, months of public protests finally dislodged Omar al-Bashir, the long-serving authoritarian leader of Sudan. On the face of it, Assange and Bashir couldn’t be more different. Bashir presided over a...
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World Gives America One Year to Stop Trump or Face Sanctions

Posted by on May 29, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments The deputy assistant under secretary general of the United Nations has given the United States a one-year warning. If the country doesn’t clean up its act and become a responsible world citizen, Ithell Colhoquon announced yesterday, the international community will impose sanctions on U.S. government officials and tariffs on U.S. goods and services. This announcement comes shortly after U.S....
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Trump’s Only Electoral Strategy Was Racism

Posted by on Jan 5, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments In the week before the mid-term elections, Donald Trump returned to his bread-and-butter issue: immigration. He knows that the only thing that will turn out his base, and possibly swing some independents over to his side, is fear. Economic indicators are in reasonably good shape (for now). Hillary Clinton is nowhere near power (for now). He can’t use the threat of North Korea’s nuclear...
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